Birds on Wires by Chris Kresser
Birds on Wires Pictures and words by Chris Kresser
All photographs and text Š Chris Kresser 2008 All rights reserved Book design by Chris Kresser Release 1.0 June 2008
Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.. Leonard Cohen
Introduction “City life is millions of people being lonesome together.�
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- Henry David Thoreau
hey say most people either love the city or hate it. Not me. I love it and hate it.
The city is defined by contrast. Beauty and ugliness, pleasure and pain, hope and despair all rub elbows together, jostling for position in our hearts and minds. If the city were a person, it would be schizophrenic. My neighborhood is strewn with telephone wires. They criss-cross the houses and streets like a dark, sinister web. Obtrusive and ugly, I’ve silently resented their presence, wishing they would disappear. Yet as I began to pay closer attention, I noticed that the wires provide a resting place for the birds whose song I have come to enjoy so much. The birds that bring life to a lifeless network of wires, metal and concrete. Birds and wires. Isolation and communication. Natural and man-made. The birds and the wires they perch on are the visual meeting ground for the tensions I feel everywhere around me.
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hat are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people...Two principles are face to face. The white angel and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the day? Victor Hugo
The images in Birds On Wires were photgraphed with a Ricoh GX100 and a Canon 5D in May of 2008. This book was designed using Adobe InDesign CS3 and printed by LuLu Press.
A book by Chris Kresser / CDK Arts